Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
ENID BLYTONWriting for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful.
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A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
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To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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